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§1 Plant
Melica torreyana Scribn.
vernacular Torrey's melicgrass — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Melica
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 30 counties across 1 state§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 30 counties across 1 state.
California view state ↗ 30 N ▾
- Alameda 06001
- Amador 06005
- Butte 06007
- Calaveras 06009
- Contra Costa 06013
- Humboldt 06023
- Kern 06029
- Lake 06033
- Los Angeles 06037
- Marin 06041
- Mendocino 06045
- Monterey 06053
- Napa 06055
- Nevada 06057
- Placer 06061
- Plumas 06063
- Sacramento 06067
- San Benito 06069
- San Francisco 06075
- San Luis Obispo 06079
- San Mateo 06081
- Santa Barbara 06083
- Santa Clara 06085
- Santa Cruz 06087
- Solano 06095
- Sonoma 06097
- Stanislaus 06099
- Tuolumne 06109
- Yolo 06113
- Yuba 06115
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/METO ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2703111 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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